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What should a computer science student include/run on his first server to learn the most?

A group of us CompSci students are trying to get our first server up and running. We're gonna try and install FreeBSD on this box. Would be great if you can suggest utilities/packages we should include on the server so that it's a great learning…
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Do any utilities exist for recovery of ReFS for a Two-Way Windows 10 Storage Spaces volume?

Considering the following Wikipedia information and other data found on the internet as well, we decided to implement Windows 10 Storage Spaces Two-Way Mirror using plain NTFS, but wanted to know if the landscape has improved for recovery of this…
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Graphical App for network usage monitoring

In 2006 I was working in tech support and my sysadmin boss guy showed me a VMWare App that had one purpose, to constantly monitor network traffic and it showed a nice graphical display of how much bandwidth was being used by any particular computers…
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check a vps guest memory usage and CPU usage

I have vps guests that are managed by KVM and libvirt. Using virt-df, I am able to check the real disk usage of each vps guest. #virt-df [--options] -d domname Is there a similar utility tool to check memory usage and cpu usage? I tried virt-top,…
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What infomation can be had about a USB device that I don't have drivers for?

I have a USB device (USB to RS-232) that works on some computers without drivers but not on others. This is a problem because I don't have the drivers disk for it nor any info on who made it. Are there any tools that will tell me what kind of…
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Finding out if an IPv6 prefix falls within a certain range?

Does anyone know of a tool or utility that can be used to quickly find out if an IPv6 prefix falls within a certain range? For instance given the input prefix range of fe80-febf and the input prefix of fe79 it would return true to indicate that the…
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Viewing MS Office document properties from command line?

I'm looking for a way to view the properties (title, author, company, etc.) of Office documents from the command line, hopefully both the standard and custom ones. Does such a utility exist? (My intention is to write a script which lists the files…
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Solaris built in command for TCP connection without all the telnet stuff

Sometimes telnet is used for testing non telnet servers such as HTTP or SMTP servers where the TELNET protocol usually stays out of the way. However, I think I have run into a case where it is in the way while debugging a TCP server. I ran telnet…
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Looking for project ideas

I have just finished my last class towards my masters degree, which leaves me with a 16 week semester project. I am an infrastructure architect working with VMware and Windows and the occasional Linux based appliance. But I do like to code my own…
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File archiver that stores RAW EFS files

I'll start off with the assurance that I have all the EFS certs safely in hand, and that is not what I'm asking about below. Assume I have that part taken care of. I'm trying to backup a some mixed (EFS 10% /nonEFS 90%) files, but want to keep the…
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Poweredge 2900 Failed to boot utility partition

How to (re)install utility partition for a Dell Poweredge 2900? Where is installed this?
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What tools to install on a fresh Linux server?

I'm configuring a new Linux server install and was just wondering if anyone has a list of useful general-purpose tools that they always install on Linux server boxes as a matter of course? I've already installed the following packages and…
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Is there an alternative to Microsoft's ALTools? (EventCombMT.exe especially)

I use Microsoft's ALTools on a regular basis to troubleshoot multiple different issues. Lately, however, EventCombMT.exe has been crashing on me during the simplest operations. I noticed that it hasn't been updated for a very long time. Is Microsoft…
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Richcopy: How do I enable file exclusions?

I'm trying to use Rich Copy to copy log files that are older than 60 days from a directory. Whenever I go in and set the exclusion rules, Rich copy seems to ignore them and just copies everything. Is there something that I'm doing wrong. Bonus…
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XScope program for Linux/XFree or X.Org

Where can I find an XScope program, debugger/tracer of xlib calls, for Linux with XFree/X.Org?
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